Politics in Canada and the U.S. is anything but ‘as usual’

Western democracies have been muddling along for so long, we have made ourselves vulnerable to exploitation and extremism, especially in this era of rage farms and social media.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘real-estate mogul approach’ to law was just one area of discussion for a conference seized with the challenges to constitutional governance, writes Andrew Caddell. White House photograph by Molly Riley

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 10, 2026

MONTREAL—There are moments when we are reminded we live in a civilized world with genuinely thoughtful intellectuals whose concern for the future of humanity is paramount. These days, those reminders are sadly infrequent as we navigate the chaos and dystopia of politics, e...

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